By Gutierrez                                          H.B. No. 1742
       74R6083 CAG-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a petition by county employees to create a county civil
    1-3  service system in certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 158.0065(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  This section applies only to <in> a county <with a
    1-8  population of 290,000 or more> that would not be eligible to expand
    1-9  or dissolve the system under Section 158.007.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-16  passage, and it is so enacted.